NYSC TO SUPPORT GREAT GREEN WALL PROJECT – DG
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The National Youth Service Corps has expressed readiness to support the implementation of the Great Green Wall Project – an initiative of the African Union aimed at addressing ecological challenges that pose threat to socio-economic development.
The Director-General, Brigadier General Sulaiman Kazaure, gave the assurance when he received the management team of the National Agency for Great Green Wall (NAGGW) led by its Director-General, Mr. Goni Ahmed at the Yakubu Gowon House, Abuja.
He noted that desertification and other ecological problems occasioned by climate change had adverse effects on the socio-economic growth of Nigeria, stressing that there had been a decline in agricultural output level in parts of the country as a result.
Kazaure hailed the Great Green Wall Programme as an initiative that would help improve the environment and foster development, adding that it deserved the support of all and sundry.
He assured that the scheme would look into the partnership proposal presented by the NAGGW with a view to making it workable.
Earlier, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Great Green Wall, Mr. Goni Ahmed, had told his host that the agency was established under an African Union Convention with eleven countries as well as eleven states of Nigeria involved in the programme.
He said the programme had been tailored towards propelling rural development and improving the living condition of communities by, amongst other things, preventing or reversing ecosystem degradation.
Ahmed pointed out that 43% per cent of the entire land area of Nigeria is under the threat of desertification despite the strategic socio-economic importance of the affected areas.
“It is in these areas that we have the bulk of the livestock that everybody uses; almost eighty per cent. This is where you get grains such as rice, maize and wheat as well as almost ninety per cent of the vegetable produced in the country. So, it commands a unique economic position in Nigeria,” he said.
The Director-General, therefore, stressed the need for all stakeholders to join hands in protecting the affected areas as well as curtail the spread of desertification to other areas for the socio-economic benefit of the country.
Ahmed used the occasion of the visit to seek partnership with the NYSC with the view of engaging Corps members in the enlightenment of communities on the need to contribute towards ensuring a sustainable environment.
He also called for the inclusion of tree planting in the scheme’s community development service activities.
The eleven participating states in the Great Green Wall Programme are Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara.
The Director-General, Brigadier General Sulaiman Kazaure, gave the assurance when he received the management team of the National Agency for Great Green Wall (NAGGW) led by its Director-General, Mr. Goni Ahmed at the Yakubu Gowon House, Abuja.
He noted that desertification and other ecological problems occasioned by climate change had adverse effects on the socio-economic growth of Nigeria, stressing that there had been a decline in agricultural output level in parts of the country as a result.
Kazaure hailed the Great Green Wall Programme as an initiative that would help improve the environment and foster development, adding that it deserved the support of all and sundry.
He assured that the scheme would look into the partnership proposal presented by the NAGGW with a view to making it workable.
Earlier, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Great Green Wall, Mr. Goni Ahmed, had told his host that the agency was established under an African Union Convention with eleven countries as well as eleven states of Nigeria involved in the programme.
He said the programme had been tailored towards propelling rural development and improving the living condition of communities by, amongst other things, preventing or reversing ecosystem degradation.
Ahmed pointed out that 43% per cent of the entire land area of Nigeria is under the threat of desertification despite the strategic socio-economic importance of the affected areas.
“It is in these areas that we have the bulk of the livestock that everybody uses; almost eighty per cent. This is where you get grains such as rice, maize and wheat as well as almost ninety per cent of the vegetable produced in the country. So, it commands a unique economic position in Nigeria,” he said.
The Director-General, therefore, stressed the need for all stakeholders to join hands in protecting the affected areas as well as curtail the spread of desertification to other areas for the socio-economic benefit of the country.
Ahmed used the occasion of the visit to seek partnership with the NYSC with the view of engaging Corps members in the enlightenment of communities on the need to contribute towards ensuring a sustainable environment.
He also called for the inclusion of tree planting in the scheme’s community development service activities.
The eleven participating states in the Great Green Wall Programme are Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara.
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